Question

Hi,
I've got a BT878 capture card with 4 sockets

Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture [109e:036e] (rev 11)

Its installed on a box running Debian squeeze with a 2.6.32 kernel and motion 3.2.12. I have a plugin camera that calls itself an "AV Tech High resolution colour camera". Xawtv seems to detect and display the video image just fine, but with motion, all I get is a black image.

Environment

Motion version:

3.2.12

ffmpeg version:

0.5.2-1

Libraries:

ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql

Server OS:

Debian squeeze 2.6.32-5-xen-686

Actually, I have two separate PCs both with the same capture card, but different linux distributions, kernels and motion versions and cameras. For the second one, which works reasonably well with ubuntu 2.6.31-14-generic and motion-3.2.11:

Answer

Well, it turned out I just had incompatible width and height settings in my config :-/
I started with width=320, height=240 - which doesn't work, but the 352x288 defaults
do work. Maybe there should be a graceful fall-back to defaults when the palettes fail,
or an appropriate error message or something?